Is there a 10 month growth spurt?

DD (dear daughter) is 10 mo and we are still getting up one or two times a night. She is not a napper and usually only naps 90 minutes total a day MAX, broken up in like 2 naps, including the drive home from work. Occasionally you can get a longer nap, but very rare. She just is too busy doing things and refuses to nap, so we let her stay up. Until recently it wasn't an issue. When she finally got tired enough, she'd get her nap.

We were at a point until recently where she was going to bed around 7 pm with a bottle, would sleep til around 4-530, get another bottle and go back to sleep until around 7-730 am. (Closer to 730 I would wake her up so we could leave for work and to not totally fuck up her sleep schedule.)

Recently (probably the last 3 or 4 days) sleep has been HELL. Waking up around 9 for another full bottle, and then getting up around 1-3 am for another bottle. She hadn't been eating as much during the day so I attributed it to that. But she's been getting 2 hour naps the last few days as well, which again is pretty abnormal for her.

No fever, no excess drooling from teething, no chewing excessively, etc.

Last night was probably our worst night in a LONG time. She woke up around 9 like she just had a hand cut off. The crying and screaming was something neither of us have ever heard from her before, so I run in thinking there was going to be blood or a limb stuck in the bars of the crib (mesh bumpers are on). Nope a horribly foul mood. I change her while DH (dear husband) goes and makes a bottle, and we try getting her back down. 2 hours later she finally exhausts herself enough to fall asleep.

All night she would wake up crying, and fall back asleep. She had 4 bottles last night, but ate a ton during the day (7, 4, 7, and 8oz from 7pm bedtime bottle to 530am bottle this morning) so I can't imagine why she was so hungry.

There isn't anything that has changed in her routine besides her longer naps the last few days. Should I not let her nap as long in the hopes of returning her to her previous sleep pattern? Or is this due to a growth spurt that's coming?

We experienced the exact same thing right before/as DD turned 10 mos.
We j...

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12/22/2015

We experienced the exact same thing right before/as DD turned 10 mos.

We just went back to a normal schedule without the screaming wake ups last week.

And we are on a similar food schedule. She's been hounding solids and formula. We mentioned it to the doc and she said we were doing everything perfectly. Edited because bad English.

Good to know I'm on the right track. Around 11 mo we plan to start dwindling down to almond milk before she turns one, but that kid is so damn stubborn when it comes to sippy cups. I'm finding a few she tolerates but I'm not sure exactly how much she's actually getting from them. I'll see wet lips but the volume of the cup never gets that low =/

Good to know I'm on the right track. Around 11 mo we plan to start dwind...

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12/22/2015

Good to know I'm on the right track. Around 11 mo we plan to start dwindling down to almond milk before she turns one, but that kid is so damn stubborn when it comes to sippy cups. I'm finding a few she tolerates but I'm not sure exactly how much she's actually getting from them. I'll see wet lips but the volume of the cup never gets that low =/

Which cups have you used? The only ones DD (dear daughter) will take are the Nuby ones. We tried a Gerber one which was terrible. I couldn't even get liquid out of it. And we tried another one (nuk, maybe?) which was also not great.

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